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Posted: Aug. 08 2004,16:51

I'm trying to use loadlin to boot dsl 0.6.2. It boots up, but won't
run "X".
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I get:
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection Reset by Peer) on X server
";0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
I am using this command line for loadlin in my batch file:
loadlin vmlinuz initrd=miniroot.gz
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I can run xsetup.sh, that makes a new .xserverrc file, and then
"startx", all to no avail.
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When I use a boot floppy, all is well.
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Anyone have any ideas?

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John

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Posted: Aug. 08 2004,18:01

I am in a MS free environment here, so I have no experience with loadlin. But there has been a lot of others talking about how to make it work with DSL. Try doing a search for it set to all forums and 'the beginning'.

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Posted: Aug. 08 2004,19:42

Thanks John!
I'll continue to look around. This box has Debian 2.2 and Mandrake 8, and Arachne 1.70 on it,in addition to DSL and Windows 98. I can boot Debian and Mandrake off the Windows desktop with loadlin, and have partial success with DSL, in that
I can boot to runlevel 2, anyway, after runlevel 5 fails. I use special autoexec.bat and config.sys in System Commander to get the upper memory and mouse driver for Arachne. I have a msdos menu for some of it, that boots prior to Windows.
Some have had success with loadlin, but one example I found in the forums used
his own partition for DSL. I have done that with Arachne/ Windows 3.1 using
System Commander before.
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accounts, and getting connected to the internet. I install DSL in one form or the other on all machines, some have only DSL, with no other OS of any kind.
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cbagger01

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Posted: Aug. 08 2004,20:08

Are you trying to use the xfbdev XServer?

If so, you need to start up Linux with a framebuffer enabled.

You would do this by adding an append line like vga=791 or vga=789 to the loadlin boot command.

Check the loadlin documentation for more details.

HTH

Aiku

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Posted: Aug. 08 2004,20:41

Do I need to get loadlin to run openoffice???

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